Entries from June 2007
Life on the ice Titan
The French scientists as a result of research have found proofs that under a crust of the biggest Saturn’s satellite - the Titan, can be a life.
Researchers have found out low-frequency radiowaves on the ice Titan. And it can testify that under a firm crust of this celestial body there is liquid water so, probably, […]
Categories: Space
Scientists created the system of wireless electric power transfer
Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created an effective system of wireless energy transfer.
The experimental device which scientists named WiTricity, consist of two coils of 23,62 inches in diameter with a copper wire, the transmitter connected to an energy source, and the receiver with connected to it incandescent lamp.
In the new device scientists […]
Categories: Physics
Swedes have created speaking paper
Scientists from University of Middle Sweden have created the speaking digital paper which reproduces the recorded beforehand sounds in reply to a touch of the user.
Prototype uses the conductors, capable to respond to the pressure and the speakers printed on a digital paper.
Researchers believe, that their novelty can be applied in advertising, in particular, tourist […]
Categories: Inventions
In Black sea jellyfishes forced out the fish
The group of scientists from the British Center of environment, fishery and aquiculture studies (Cefas) has come to a conclusion that excessive fishes catch in Black sea was a primary factor of jellyfishes distribution.
Scientists inform that destructive development of the Black Sea fish stocks for last 50 years at least twice radically changed the sea’s […]
Categories: General
NASA tests a new spacecraft
NASA starts testing of a new modified Boeing-747 which is intended for space observations during flights.
NASA developers have named the new project SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy). It is planned within the framework of the project, that the plane during the next three years will be supplied with various onboard technical equipment. NASA informed […]
Categories: General
First-ever 4-dimensional anatomic atlas of the human body
The research group from University of Calgary (Canada) informed about the creation of a first-ever spatial model of a human body.
Development received the name 4D CAVEman. The model “is in the air” in a room of a virtual reality in which the image is formed with the help of the projector systems built in walls […]
Categories: Inventions
New electronic phenomenon attacks teenagers
Research of the American company Harris Interactive has shown, that 43 % of the American teenagers at the age of 13-17 years constantly face with new enough electronic phenomenon - cyber bullying through the Internet or with the help of other electronic devices.
Bullying implies rather wide range of actions - from threats up to sneers […]
Categories: Internet
Saturn annuluses surprised the scientists
The new data received from Cassini spacecraft, show, that astronomers incorrectly pictured the structure of Saturn annuluses – it appeared that they are made of constantly born and dying combinations of particles.
The most dense and powerful rings of this giant are made not simply of great variety of particles which continuously revolve on the orbits, […]
Categories: Space
Microsoft presented the revolutionary table - interface
Microsoft presented the new user interface made as a table, which allows to order dishes and pay at a restaurant, to buy tickets in cash departments, to edit images, to play and make a lot of other things by a simple touch of hands to the 30-inch multicontact screen.
Contact screens are now a novelty; however […]
Categories: Inventions